came up the river with us last fall, got us up a fine dinner. She is a great Yankee woman. After dinner the committee con =ducted us around. Half a dozen or so houses completed but a hundred in process of construction. Hendricks and Belt are tearing down their store buildings across on the south side of the Tanana and moving them over here It presents as thrifty and busy a scene as Fairbanks - and has some advantages - or at least one: it is on the main river! Saw a moose head. Hendricks & Belt, killed a year ago by the Indians measuring 72 inches across- The most magnificent pair of horns I ever saw! Met Pedro here and many of the residents. Pedro came back to Fairbanks and paid me a visit tonight. Promises me the old gold pan with which he made discovery of the camp. Have determined after my